The Listeners by Walter de la Mare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems mystery

The Listeners by Walter de la mare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley some(prenominal) immediately convey a spirit of secret as they are rig in the knightly. Ozymandias revisits the really(prenominal) distant past and The Listeners revisits the past in the lifetime of a single man.Shelley delectations the technique of a tarradiddle within a story to require whodunit, where de la Mare intakes an account. However they two make use of a lonely(prenominal) traveller who visits lonely places to evoke a sense of fear, encouraging you to deliberate close what might birth happened in these places and that events could have been very sinister. twain poems have the master(prenominal) focus of an isolated structureThat dwelt in the lone provide thenStood audience in the heartsease of the moonlight(The Listeners, lines 14 & 15, Walter de la Mare)Of that colossal wreck, boundless and barrenThe lone and level littoral stretching far away.(Ozymandias, lines 13 & 14, Perc y Bysshe Shelley)The poets inject both of these inanimate structures with a sense of military manity, which furthers the dusky aura surrounding them. Shelley uses a human description to do thisAnd wrinkled lip, and mock of cold command,(Ozymandias, line 5, Percy Bysshe Shelley)Where de la Mare instead uses the spirits of the Listeners to give the domicil a sense of humanity, as if the house itself is possessed and listening to the travellerAnd he felt in his heart their strangeness,Their still answering his cry,(The Listeners, lines 21 & 22, Walter de la Mare)Both poets cleverly use imagery to construct flicks in our minds. De la Mare uses very detailed and lengthy descriptions, which build mystery and suspense and make you feel as if you are watching the lone travellerKnocking on the moonlit opening(The Listeners, line 2, Walter de la Mare)This makes you feel very apprehensive.Shelleys descriptions in Ozymandias are more limited and rather abrupt, which I think attains m ystery because the reader has to use their imagination to picture events releasely.The poems differ at this point because in The Listeners, de la Mares setting is full of life, for instance he describes trees, turf, grass and a horse. In contrast to Ozymandias, where Shelley uses bleak descriptions of a setting, which indicates an highly barren and empty expanse.The Listeners hints at the stable quality of the spirits who dwell in the house. Whereas Ozymandias gives a unresolved message of the brief nature of the effects of power and pride.The overthrow of each poem has both similarities and differences. Ozymandias has no clear completion. There is nothing to joint it up. Shelley has left a gap to use our own imagination. hardly in The Listeners, de la Mare clearly describes the traveler retreating backwards to where he had come from. Creating a clear goal to the story.The similarities arise at the end of each poem because both the poets use alliteration to describe excee d, space and quiet. Shelley manages to create a large expanse of space, distance and emptinessThe lone and level sands stretch far away.(Ozymandias, line 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley)But de la Mare creates a persuasion of stillness, quiet and distance withAnd how the silence surged mildly backwards,When the plunging hoofs were gone.(The Listeners, lines 35 & 36, Walter de la Mare)By victimization this alliteration right at the end of the poems and the S sound all the way through, both poets have finished with mystery and quiet foreboding of what might be.I think that both poems are telling a ghost story. They are quite frightening and very mysterious. Out of the two my pet is the listeners. I prefer this as I think it is a clear story, which do me feel on edge. Where I engraft Ozymandias too vague and without a clear ending.